Objective Design Standards Resources for Multi-Family Residential and Mixed-Use Zones

The handbook provides a how-to manual for creating objective design standards that are rooted in a community’s design values and its existing policies. It provides curated design standards and zoning graphics for a range of building and site design topics that planners can select from and refine to meet their community’s needs.

These files are available for jurisdiction staff to use while creating or revising their objective design standards. These files are in a Zip file. To access them, click on the link below, then click on the InDesignFiles.zip option to open all the files. 

These Word files correspond to each chapter of the Handbook.

These files are available for jurisdiction staff to use while creating or revising their objective design standards. These files are in a Zip file. To access them, click on the link below, then click on the Image Files.zip option to open all the files. 

These slides can be edited by jurisdiction staff to use in presentations about objective design standards. 

This report can be edited by jurisdiction staff to help develop or refine objective design standards for multi-family residential and mixed-use projects.

This webinar provided an overview of the Objective Design Standards Handbook.

This deck accompanies the webinar on the Objective Design Standards Handbook.